Double Indemnity
famously involves a dying narrator -- the first scene is his racing across the city, bleeding to death, to get to a recorder in his office so that he can confess his crimes. He doesn't die till he's done narrating, though.
(The novel of same is written in the first person, and when you get to the end you realize it is a really long suicide note.)
I think voiceover and first-person narration are not always the same thing, however. The Danny DeVito narration in
L. A. Confidential
is in the newswriting voice of the character, and ends before the characetr dies -- you could say it is more of an artifactual narration, where the reading of his prose is done literally in his voice. He doesn't tell the intimate details of the story, just summarizes what is in the newspapers (and as a tool to smooth out such an unbelieveably complex and overwrought story, he's a pretty good one!).
They really should have a narrator die before finishing the story.
They really should have a narrator die before finishing the story.
Yeah. And then have the characters stand around, not sure what to do. (Except that territory has already been mined by Pirandello.)
Yeah. And then have the characters stand around, not sure what to do. (Except that territory has already been mined by Pirandello.)
And of course, Aruthur and his men being saved when the animator dies of a heart attack.
Mikey, I hear great things about Ong Bak and am definitely going to give it a go.
Oddly enough, The Protector, in retrospect, is making me appreciate Crank more than I did at the time. Not sure what that means except that I like my freaky, violent, jump cut/hallucinatory/chase-y cinema with a bit more humor and a few less
endangered haffalumps
.
In Reversal of Fortune, the narrator's brain-dead, but she does technically survive the movie.
In Reversal of Fortune, the narrator's brain-dead, but she does technically survive the movie.
Oh gawd. Now I'm imagining movie narration along the lines of Terri Schiavo's Blog....
Terry Schiavo wrote The Path to 9/11!
Hee!
She's also the ghostwriter for Ann Coulter, I bet....
